Sentence examples for assert freedom from inspiring English sources

He added: "It would be absurd to assert freedom of speech in the abstract without exercising it in concrete terms".

According to western diplomats, the dispatch of the three ships was intended to assert freedom of navigation and also to reinforce a very small Ukrainian naval presence in the Sea of Azov.

The Pentagon is considering sending US military aircraft and ships to assert freedom of navigation around growing Chinese-made artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, a US official has said.

The US says its decision to send a destroyer close to one of these islands this week, through waters over which China claims sovereignty, was to assert freedom of international passage.

The aggressive Chinese gesture comes at a time of rising tensions between China and the US in the South China Sea, where Beijing has claimed ownership of a number of reefs and small islands – which it is in the process of militarising – while the US navy has been conducting patrols nearby to assert freedom of navigation in the sea lanes.

Western artists are generally uneasy at being viewed as political in the way that Weiwei has come to accept; they see it as a limit on their asserted freedom.

They assert their freedom to pollute, exploit, even – among the gun nuts – to kill, as if these were fundamental human rights.

As she continues to assert her freedom of mind and to exercise her free will by resistance, even defiance, she is rescued by the attendant spirit and her brothers.

He thought that the architect's profession would simply die out - people would prefer to employ stone-masons like his father - if it did not always assert its freedom to invent.

The Australian's Chris Kenny is all for offending as many Muslims as it takes to assert our freedom; when satirists offended him, he called in his lawyers and trousered taxpayer's money in a settlement with the ABC.

Earlier, security forces herded scores of her supporters from the station before she embarked on her effort to assert her freedom of movement and test the military's resolve to impose restrictions.